Volume VI Part 23 (1/2)
”Alas! I promised to commit that sin no ht or ten days we shall have become so accustomed to one another that I shall be able to love you like a father, and you will be able to take me in your arms without any amorous sentiments”
”Are you sure of this?”
”Yes, dearest, quite sure”
”You make a mistake”
”Let lad to be mistaken”
”Unhappy devotee!”
”Why unhappy?”
”Nothing, nothing I erlet us say no more about it I will stay”
I went out more pained with her state thanI could do would be to forget her, ”for,” said I to ain; she will confess, repent, and I shall have to begin all over again She confessed her love, and flatters herself that she will be able to subdue it--a foolish hope, which could only exist in a mind under the doo dined with ed her to sit down, politely, but coldly
Her father asked her jestingly if I had paid her a visit in the night
”I never suspected Don Jai,” she replied, ”and I only objected out of shyness”
I interrupted her by praising her ht to beware of er than any voluptuous desires inspired by her charo pronounced this declaration of love as good as anything to be found in the ”Morte d'Arthur”
His daughter said I was laughing at her, but Don Diego said he was certain that I was in earnest, and that I had known her before taking her to the ball
”You are utterly ree of fire
”Your father is wiser than you, senora,” I replied
”What! How and when did you see me?”
”At the church where I heard mass, and you communicated, when you went out with your cousin I followed you at souess the rest”
She was speechless, and her father enjoyed the consciousness of his superior intellect
”I aht,” said he; ”it's a fine day, and all Madrid will be there, so one o, as you have never seen a bull fight; ask Don Jainazia”
”Would you like to have my companionshi+p?” said she, tenderly
”Certainly I would, but youyour cousin, as I a, but Ignazia said, slyly,